25 Photos Proving Your Parents Were Awesome — You Know, Before YOU Came Along

My parents were awesome. So were yours. They all might still be. You know, if we hadn’t come along and ruined it for them.

Eliot Glazer gets that our parents had stories — and interesting ones, at that — before we were born. Which is hard to imagine. You know, since we just assume that we are what make our parents interesting.

So Glazer collected photos. Lots and lots of them. Photos of our parents. Being awesome. Before us. It’s still hard to imagine, until you look at the photos and realize that parents were people, too. You know, before they were parents.

Check them out:

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Then I came along.

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"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living." â€• Dr. Seuss

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